Events

Michigan Roots: Genealogy Research in the Great Lakes State

Kris Rzepczynski, a Senior Archivist at the Archives of Michigan, will present this program at the Capital Area District library. Drawn by high-paying manufacturing jobs and inexpensive land, thousands of people from all over Europe and the United States, including the Deep South, New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, migrated to Michigan during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This session, aimed at researchers whose ancestral trails extend to and from Michigan, will explore these migration patterns and provide an overview of the rich and abundant genealogical resources available in print and online.